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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the free, ad-sponsored re-release of American Elections Wicked Game, |
0:05.0 | a weekly march through every presidential election from 1789 to 2024. |
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0:31.2 | The 2024 election is over, regardless of how you view the results, your politics or party affiliation, there are some things we can all agree on. |
0:45.9 | One of them is that when selecting politicians, we want individuals who can best represent our interests and not their own, so that, as Abraham Lincoln put it, |
0:56.2 | government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
1:01.5 | The goal has never been government of the elite, or government by the minority, and certainly |
1:06.8 | not government for a single person. But when an individual can hold so much power as our |
1:12.9 | president does, how can we assure that it's our interests that are being pursued? One defense |
1:19.6 | against tyranny, autocracy, and kleptocracy is to uphold the rule of law and maintain the |
1:25.1 | checks and balances built into our Constitution. |
1:33.1 | But a more proactive measure is to select national politicians that can and are likely to put country over self, because they exist. And that's what we're exploring today with an episode |
1:38.7 | from a podcast called Country Over Self. Our fourth president, James Madison, set aside his own long-held and fiercely argued belief |
1:48.1 | in the unconstitutionality of the Bank of the United States and extended the bank's |
1:53.0 | charter because he saw it worked. |
1:56.0 | I hope you enjoy. |
1:57.3 | While you're listening, be sure to search for and follow Country Over Self. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you. |
2:25.1 | Welcome to Country Over Self, defining moments in American history. |
2:31.0 | Each episode, we welcome a notable historian to tell us the story of a president and a choice that president made to strengthen the country without regard to the impact of that |
2:35.5 | decision on himself, his power, or his party. Welcome to country over self, defining moments |
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